What are the scar removal treatments for keloids?
The methods now available to remove scars are: • Surgery: This is risky, because cutting a keloid can trigger the formation of a similar or even larger scar. Some scar removal success has been achieved by injecting steroids or applying pressure dressings to the wound. • Laser treatment: Pulsed-dye lasers can be effective at flattening keloids and removing redness. These laser reatments are genneraly very safe and not painful. Several sessions may be needed. • Fluorouracil: Injections of this chemotherapy agent, alone or together with steroids. • Silicone sheets: This involves wearing a sheet of silicone gel on the affected area for several hours a day for weeks or months. • Cryotherapy: Freezing keloids with liquid nitrogen may flatten them but often darkens the site of treatment. You many need IPL treatments to remove this pigment. • • Cortisone injections (intralesional steroids): These are safe and not very painful. Injections are usually given once per month until the maximum benef
